Ma soeur cent têtes is a gender feminist street-art project which began in June 2012. Herein I collect portraits of women from the past or present who have achieved something noteworthy, and make stencils from them. These I use to spray images in various public spaces in and around Vienna, or when I go travelling. Every stenciled piece is accompanied by a QR-code which, on being scanned by a smartphone, links to the website of the woman shown. On this website you can find a page devoted to each woman with the relevant link and photograph, organized by city. The aim of this project is to raise public consciousness of the number of women who have significantly influenced our history, and to facilitate the re-discovery of their work and accomplishments. This is, so to speak, a feminist intervention into the public arena, in which I elevate these heroines like statues on two-dimensional plinths, so they can also dignify our cities. On another level I this this project as a commentary on what is a male-dominated street-art scene, and an addition or alternative to their canon of self-expression. The title refers to Max Ernst ́s collage-novel „La femme cent têtes“ from 1929. I see my work as complementery to the surrealistic manner to equalise femininity with unconscious, magic or dreamlike elements and thus achieve distance from their own dreams and feelings. Here the woman is not at all object or projection screen for male fantasy, but an acting and creating subject who demands self-positioning and imitation.

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